Approximate Computing Techniques

lt;p>Alberto Bosio received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 2006. From 2007 to 2018 was an Associate Professor at LIRMM - University of Montpellier in France. He is now a Full Professor at the INL - Ecole Centrale de Lyon - Institute of Nanotechnology (France). His research interests include Approximate Computing, In-Memory Computing, Test and Diagnosis of Digital circuits and systems and Reliability. He co-authored 3 books and 4 book-chapter, 4 patents, 46 papers in international journals and more than 152 papers in international conferences and workshops book, 3 patents, 35 journals, and over 120 conference papers. He will be is the chair of the European Test Technology Technical Council - IEEE eTTTCETTTC from January 2018 and . He is a member of the IEEE.

General introduction Motivations.- Number representations.- Data level approximation.- Dynamic precision scaling.- Hardware level approximation.- Inexact operators.- Computation level approximation - algorithmic level.- Analysis of approximation effect on application quality.- Techniques for finite precision arithmetic.- Compilers and Programming Languages for Approximate Computing.- Design space exploration.- Word-length optimization for fixed-point and floating-point.- HLS of approximate accelerators.- Approximate Computing for IoT Applications.- Approximating Safety-Critical Applications.- Approximate Computing for HPC Applications.